skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Intel sure wasn't going to be in the running as a smartphone SoC designer or as a foundry for somebody else's smartphone SoCs

Intel did try doing this in the 2000s, but couldn't justify the resourcing needed for this due to x86 as well as their restrictive licensing of Intel Atom.

Meanwhile, ARM was fabless and just licensed to anyone (a major reason why Chinese challenger brands exist in the Chips space today)

Fundamentally, you cannot be both an IP creator (eg. Design) and chip fabricator, as both functions have different economics and competitive structures, and one BU inevitabely holds the other back.

> Samsung's foundry business probably would have been a bit better off, but overall it would still be TSMC as the leading foundry

Samsung, SK Hynix, and other Korean players dropped the ball due to the Apple lawsuit as well as the 2016-17 SK-China trade war (impacted SK exports to China - including intermediate parts) and the 2019-23 SK-Japan trade war (a number of critical components in fabrication are supplied by Japanese firms like Tokyo Electron and Nikon and were impacted by mutual tariffs)
Not being competitive and one upping everyone, being ok with peoples flaws, being honest, being vulnerable, being dependable, not being selfish or self centered, being self reflective… some of these sound obvious but I’m in my 50s have uprooted many times and have always managed to make close friends. I do lament the trail of friends I’ve left around the world, but we are all very similar and scattered as well.
> The purpose of abstraction is to hide implementation detail

Technically, that's encapsulation, though the sentiment is close, I think.

I rather view it as a matter of semantics. At one low level, you have operations that deal with some concrete interface or API, etc. You bundle those operations up behind an abstraction, providing methods whose names involve your application domain. Perhaps they are still at a technical level, and you bundle those up behind another abstraction, whose method names involve your business domain.

Yes, the lower level details are hidden from the higher levels, but the hiding is not the point. The point is to be able to write code that readily corresponds to the problem you are trying to solve.
How do you know which papers to read? It seems like it would be overwhelming without some filter, and perhaps quality would be lower without editorial standards?

(I'm not advocating for a paywalled journal, but I'm wondering if a free journal designated as the premier one in the field would be useful.)
I did. My apologies for the typo.
Great read! Cohousing sounds like exactly what i've wanted in a neighborhood. I wish it were the norm.
I heard people say that 5 years ago when BERT hit public access.
Which definition of "rural" are you referring to?
Presumably, one could license IBM’s 2nm research, buy the equipment and try doing 2nm fabrication. That is what Rapidus is doing.
Because they’ve been getting away with it unchecked for decades.
This is what we did for a now defunct service where it’s scaled to a biggest available machine at that time (less than a TB of memory) and the db was mostly for a freaking giant table.
Thanks! I'll know to do that in the future.
Thank you!

D1 read replication was not available when I started working on FlagShip. However, since I only use D1 for storing data like project configuration, replication was not really necessary.

The flags consumed by the clients are pushed to and read from KV alone. KV already has geo replication out of the box, although there still is propagation delay for updates to KV.

It would be nice to have everything served from D1, I might consider it when replication is stable enough.
psi/RV predates the Cold War, the USA, and Western culture, and there's zero doubt it works, but that will be very hard for you to see unless you get first hand experience. My answer can get you from 0 to 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42528680

It's a self-revealing non-dismissal to associate with something you dislike. Maybe your hick uncle is poor, or a KKK member. Should you be punished, or condemned to poverty? But facts are: the Scientology connection I think is Hal Puthoff who was temporarily a member to study that organized religion apparently. So? US frontier science has a history with occult, such as NASA's Jack Parsons. In the real world, totality of programs is much bigger than 1 dude, unless you're fixated on that aspect, then it would seem to all revolve around that hahaha! :)

Another way to look at this is all of this skepticism is a very monocultural, in fact a very white, and by association with the faux-confident dismissals here a 'white-supremacist' viewpoint to take. While many cultures today embody pseudoscientific materialist dogma in a rush to embrace ‘scientific modernity’ , there’s also a widespread acceptance of psi phenomena (by many names) among Chinese, Indian, Central Asian, African and South American cultures.
After the RO layer should exist another activated charcoal layer. This should block most of the leaked polyamide from the RO layer. My filter is this way.
> high-quality camera phone

Citation may be needed. Phone cameras today are still pretty crap compared to DSLR/mirrorless cameras due to physical limitations. Particularly in challenging scenarios like night. Except now, instead of getting a totally grainy mess, you get a moderately grainy mess crippled with excessive sharpness, local contrast, and whatever other algorithmic hallucinations the phone manufacturer dreamed up. Bad photos will always be bad photos, I reckon.
They don't have that many SWE...so be careful on your comparisons. 95% of their engineers are non-SWE...and those engineering disciplines do not make 4X those salaries listed above.
Abstraction hides detail, but at what coat?

A network close call at a high level closes a network socket. But at the tcp level there's a difference between close and reset. Which do you want? Your api has removed that choice from you, and if you look you will have no idea if rhe close api does a close or a reset.

Is the difference important? If depends. If you have a bunch of half open sockets and run out of file descriptors then it becomes very important.

Another example: you call read() on a file, and read 10k bytes. Did you know your library was reading 1 byte at a time unbuffered? This abstraction will/can cause massive performance problems.

My favorite one is when a programmer iterates over an ORM-enabled array. Yes, let's do 50,000 queries instead of one because databases are too complicated to learn.

Just like any tool, abstraction has costs and benefits. The problem is that lots of people ignore the cost, and assume the benefit.
Japan is trying to rebuild its leading edge capability with Rapidus using IBM technology. Interestingly, IBM still does the research needed to make a fabrication plant. They just don’t want to assume the risks from deploying it in production anymore as far as I can tell.
> Why commit such brazen sabotage with a spy ship?

That part seemed odd to me too.

Spy folks aren't the ones conducting sabotage? If one division has installed apy equipment then surely they don't want that fact plastered all over documents, so perhaps the sabotage guys just saw a suitable ship in the harbor and presuaded/replaced the crew?

Doesn't look good either way though.
This worked for me, too. Additionally, I reduced my intake of fatty foods, such as fried and buttery foods. I did not completely stop them, but I reduced them greatly. It made a huge difference.
Reini I think you would be great at this. Internally directed. Smart. Perceptive. And with your eyesight problem you likely already subconsciously enhanced psi skills to compensate - it’s often correlated, sort of like light-weight 'sort of blindsight'.
Ctrl+W: delete last word
Then you invented your own thing which they never said, and complained that it's wrong.
>So you’re saying the simulation architects used an older diffusion model for dreams.

I think these concepts are actually related - the things that end up messed up in dreams and diffusion models are things that have high information density. Faces, hands, books, phone screens, ship layouts etc all have a lot of information in them from a human perspective. If we pay attention then we can see the (lack of) this level of detail.

This kind of lucid dreaming advice has worked for me a handful of times. They've been very memorable dreams.
Chinese hackers used telcos to geolocate Americans and record phone calls
it is work. i have to think very hard. to talk strangers.

not least i prefer to write.

and so its a choice.
This isn't the future or the internet I want.
Machine-Assisted Proof [pdf]
There was no disinfo fundamentally. There's zero doubt psi/RV works. Try it yourself, or fail to understand. My answer can help you get to 1st session: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42528680

Most folks neg-commenting here would be perfect candidates for this: unafraid of social ostracism, internally directed. Interested in it. Competitive.
Apple pays TSMC better than anyone else does since they want the best processes and are willing to pay a premium to cover much of the investment needed to achieve them. Losing them would really hurt TSMC. Not having them in the 10s would have slowed down TSMC’s development of new process technology.
> why would i ever use this thing

Los Alamos U.S. National Lab is funding Legion, which uses Terra, https://legion.stanford.edu/overview/

Achieving high performance and power efficiency on future architectures will require programming systems capable of reasoning about the structure of program data to facilitate efficient placement and movement of data.

Are the Stanford researchers in a basement? The lab's previous work lead to CUDA. Does that earn them any consideration? How about lanl.gov using the language?
> We need people at the gate to keep the fools from doing as they please.

Interesting that you take the agile problem-solving examples and the overall thesis of the book (not website) and extrapolate to a single catastrophic genocidal concept that apparently only these gatekeepers can prevent.

The truth is that the people at the gate are actually pretty keen on staying the people at the gate. They'll raise whatever bogeymen they can to keep that status quo, and call people fools and stupid and nihilistic.

To take an example of the permissionless culture, Napster really didn't hurt anyone, but did upset a lot of the entrenched asymmetric power structures in the music industry, and was clearly a crucial development leading to iTunes, Bandcamp, Spotify, and probably Tor as well.

> The problems this web site is describing are all of the same stripe: regulatory capture by lobbying groups. That's what needs to be fixed.

You've identified a problem.

Have you made any personal attempt, any material investment, in fixing that problem?

Would you stand in the way of others who would fix that problem, even if it was against the current rules or laws of a culture, society or group?
As for how to do it, based on my reading, imagine a mattress on the floor. And then, to follow your comparison, imagine a prayer, particularly an Islamic prayer pose (knees on the floor, hips in the air, head and hands touching the floor). Except as the author describes it, your knees would be up on the mattress, and your head and hands would touch the floor, rendering your torso largely inverted.

Also, I realize that there's a lot more to the Adhan than just this pose, but it's the only easily searchable thing I can think of at the moment.
A few months ago I created a fantasy series of bond certificates in SVG format. Bank notes and the history of their prints is a fascinating topic. The guilloche patterns and cross hatch shading techniques lend themselves to SVG generation. Most of it could be achieved in Inkscape. The rest was done in the XML.
I think with LLMs the tighter the constraints you give it and the bumpers the better it is. Something you could do with it is like a JackBox game that generates the content. However I think it is very dangerous to rely too heavily on it without writing something to kind of gate or filter the inputs.

Almost as if it needs data sanitization.
What money were they laundering? They were obtaining funds from DoD.

1995 was the date it went dark, became a WUSAP with a bigot list. The performative disowning by CIA is ritual cover.
what is Bitspace?
Given you just mentioned semantic search (a term I haven’t heard in over 15 years) and the other breadcrumbs in this comment, you wouldn’t by chance be an English lecturer living in Ireland would you?
Yes, it's an NVMe.

Western Digital & OCZ nvme drives have both worked fine in this system, so I'm feeling a bit salty about this. Would like to try some Samsung drives at some point.

(Running Linux 6.11.7 atm.)
That factor is so important that the US intentionally restricted the usability of the US passport card to keep that status quo
While I love XAI and am always happy to see more work in this area, I wonder if other people use the same heuristics as me when judging a random arxiv link. This paper has one author, was not written in latex, and no comment referencing a peer reviewed venue. Do other people in this field look at these same signals and pre-judge the paper negatively?

I did attempt to check my bias and skim the paper, it does seem well written and takes a decent shot towards understanding LLMs. However, I am not a fan of black-box explanations, so I didn't read much (I really like Sparse autoencoders). Has anyone else read the paper? How is the quality?
Awh yes totally deserves to be in the nih gov site...
Expect it is how I came to see so much resume driven development.
Right, most of the reported military tests are blind, and they can be because the judge is different to the viewer. Still, feedback is important.

All the self sessions and RV mobile apps use feedback, because otherwise how to know?

But strictly speaking you don't need feedback.
Right a self evaluation isn't a study.
Best Pull Request Ever
They charged us for our next month of service the day before they shut down. That’s fraud.
It looks to me that almost every talk on there is in English or has an English translation track: https://ftp.media.ccc.de/congress/2024/h264-hd/
NCHS codes, RUCC codes, census designated places, ZIP code designations, take your pick. All of those are generally OK by me. Something other than just "small towns and villages exist", as both easily get classified as urban or suburban.

I've got loads of data backing up my assertion tons people think they live in a rural area don't live in a statistically classified rural area. People overly misuse the term rural and don't really understand a truly rural area.
Fiefdoms. Got it.
True but not exclusive with the reality of psi/RV. True statement about bureaucracy sadly.
No degree of cheapness will be able to offset the “creates more work for me rather than less” part.
> Counting your fingers; in dreams, you may not have 5 per finger

That sounds horrifying. 5 fingers per finger. Do those other 5 fingers also have five fingers per finger, like a finger fractal gone out of control?
H1B Debacle Discussion
I believe there is a very straightforward solution available: set a floor on H1B salaries.

The pros of skilled immigration are self-evident, just look at the names of the contributors to literally any research paper of note. America is about 4.5% of the world population, it would be foolish to squander the advantage of being one of the primary destinations the remaining top contenders from the other 95% of the world pool.

The major con of H1B immigration comes from when American workers are excluded by those who are simply willing/able to work for a lower wage. This drives down wages for Americans and excludes otherwise willing and competent members from the workforce.

Solution: add a floor on H1B salaries at something like 1.5x average American salary for the field. When it comes to importing the best and brightest from around the world, that function would remain completely unaffected. Those people can and should be making 1.5x average anyway, and they almost invariably already are. And by making it a floor rather than a penalty across the board, we're not even disincentivizing hiring the best and brightest, we're just only incentivizing hiring the best and brightest. When it comes to hiring your bread and butter workforce, keep it American until you run out of Americans to hire, and then pay a premium for those abroad.
Imagine the face of a guy who needs to do the work of 5 solo now... He is probably the happiest employee now and his salary raised 5-fold, surely yeah?

Hopefully that'll finish off big companies
>It's become about exploitation and extraction, instead of building.

What if I told you it always has been about that.
I had to stop doing reality checks because I would wake up soon after realizing that I was dreaming which caused me to miss out on needed sleep.

Also lucid nightmares and false awakenings aren’t great. Spin around in circles fast so everything is blurry and you might buy some time.
There are some rather important papers that were written under pseudonyms, e.g. Student (1908). "The Probable Error of a Mean"
True. Also, no one is talking about tyres. They shed lot of micro plastics in their life time
This is made worse by the fact that they created a really bad UX for their cars in the name of data protection (at least in Germany). Example: you have to accept the T&C of the online services with every(!) start of the vehicle. If you don’t press either the accept or reject button, you can’t enter any of the nav / entertainment/ … screens.

In the name of data protection, you are not even allowed to have two main users of the car. As a result, it’s either me or my SO being able to see the car‘s state of charge in the mobile app. It’s impossible for both to see it except you do account sharing
Show HN: A vibes-based book search engine
Good times indeed
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

> Cost of Living Including Rent in Taipei is 59.0% lower than in San Francisco, CA

Salaries tend to scale with cost of living. The cost of living in Taiwan is lower than the US. The difference is particularly large if you compare Taipei, the capital where the cost of living is likely the highest, to San Francisco. Presumably, the salaries would be higher if they hire people from the US.
> TLDR- - Position: Kneel on something raised (like a 6.5" platform), put your head lower than your stomach by resting it on your hands on the floor

A picture would help me. Is there any name of this exercise so that I can Google?
When a company goes bankrupt, there’s a specific order that everyone who’s owed money gets paid out in. I wouldn’t be surprised if “operational costs” like refunds are low on the list.
Pretty easy to give generic advice without examples.

“Write more tests, but not too many”

“Use good abstractions where appropriate?”

“The next time you reach for an abstraction, ask yourself: Is this truly simplifying the system? Or is it just another layer of indirection?”

It’s easy to create a strawman here (the FactoryAdaptorMapper or whatever) but in reality this kind of generic advice doesn’t help anyone.

Of course people want to use good abstractions.

That’s not the problem.

The problem is being able to tell the difference between generic arbitrary advice (like this post) and how your specific code base needs to use abstractions.

…and bluntly, the only way to know, is to either a) get experience in the code base or b) read the code that others have left there before you.

If it’s a new project, and you’re not familiar with the domain you’ll do it wrong.

Every. Single. Time.

So, picking “good” abstractions is a fools game.

You’ll pick the wrong ones. You’ll have to refactor.

That’s the skill; the advice to take away; how to peel back the wrong abstraction and replace it with your next best guess at a good one. How to read what’s there and understand what the smart folk before did and why.

…so, I find this kind of article sort of arrogant.

Oh, you want to be a great programmer?

Just program good code.
Use good abstractions. Don’t leave any technical debt. Job done!

…a few concrete examples would go a long way here…
What do Chinese vehicles have to do with this, or the ability of US Senators to "provide" alternatives? Sorry wasn't aware that the Ford family has someone in the US Senate.
Think of it as two months of read access rather than one month of read/write access!

> You will have until Friday, March 7th at 5:00pm ET to download your Bench data from this website.
From a programmer's and former taxi driver's perspectice, finding a fuzzy path through something chaotic and shifting like a city optimizes for very different logic than finding a path through a maze or a jam of vehicles. It's reducing from a big picture versus trying to iterate solutions from a small picture. And I can't tell you how many times I get in a lyft these days and know better than the GPS how to get around a traffic snarl, because pathfinding generally doesn't consider what might happen to traffic 30 minutes from now given the current conditions (if everyone is headed northeast to a concert, for example).
It's just an IBAN. Not "IBAN numbers and bank account numbers".
How dare the Germans organize an event in Germany insist on speaking German.
That was before Intel renamed their process nodes. They went from being 1 node more dense to being 1 node less dense with their new naming scheme. You need Intel 4 to match TSMC 5nm.
I’ve found a similar article with the actual picture, but there they’ve tested bridge posture, effect should be similar I think.. will definitely try it out (been suffering from severe GERD since last year after swallowing a piece of nut and after the endoscopy, maybe they’ve also taken too much material for the biopsy)

Article:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/prm/7/0/7_20220054/_htm...
In the same way wood is used to build a house.

That you used wood doesn’t mean you built a house.
Thanks that's a very good idea its in my list of features to add :)
> However, there’s a problem: due to the same-origin policy, retrieving ZIP data directly with fetch(””) fails when the page is opened from the filesystem (except in Firefox).

chromium --allow-access-from-files
These are 4nm facilities. Intel’s 18A process is more advanced. Hopefully it will turn out well. If not, that is the end of Intel.
I think an important distinction is hiding details from other parts of the program, and having details being hidden from you.

99.9% of the time I don't care what the tcp socket closes with as long as it isn't leaking a resource.

And if I did care, then I picked the wrong level of network abstraction to engage with. I should've used something more raw.

Regarding ORM arrays. I have myself recently debugged such a case. I chortled a bit at the amateur who wrote the code (me last year) and the schmuck who accidentally wrapped it in a loop (me 3 weeks ago). Then I changed it slightly to avoid the N queries and went on with my day. No need to lambast the tooling or the programmers. Just write something maintainable that works. No need to throw the entire ORM away just because we accidentally made a web page kinda slow that one time.

And don't worry, I too lament when web pages I don't control are slow. You may rest uneasily knowing that that page would be slow regardless of whether ORMs existed because it is not slow because of ORMs, but because there is no incentive for the business to care enough to make it faster.
This open-source bookmark manager, hoarder, was posted recently and offers local archiving: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42485746

Recently, I've started messing around with vimwiki and saving pages as PDF or as safari web archive.
You're referring to mixins in programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixin) which isn't related to this library